The judge handling the grand jury hearing in the rape case against Dennis Gallagher, Sheri Roman, today dismissed the grand jury, saying in her ruling that the assistant district attorney handling the case was “improper” and caused not only “a risk of prejudice” to the grand jury, but “created actual prejudice.”
Pity the poor juror who votes to convict Sean (Puffy) Combs. To do so would be, well, un-American. At least that’s what Benjamin Brafman, the rap mogul’s combative lawyer, seemed to be suggesting in closing arguments on March 12, as he tried to paper over some of the more troubling aspects of Mr. Combs’ defense Read More
The only thing missing from the Sean (Puffy) Combs trial
thus far-with the possible exception of anti-fur activists who seem destined to
show up any minute now to make Puffy pay for his
politically-incorrect-to-critters fashion show at Bryant Park on Feb. 10-is
Jennifer Lopez. But if the early, made-for-TV rounds of the trial are any Read More
Ever since hip-hop impresario Sean (Puffy) Combs was implicated in a Manhattan nightclub shooting on Dec. 27, 1999, the New York tabloids have been giddily awaiting a possible trial. Mr. Combs’ story did have all the deliciously spicy and necessary ingredients for a tabloid classic–Mr. Combs is a dashing, if troubled, music mogul with millions Read More
Sean (Puffy) Combs, the 30-year-old rap mogul, has had his share of legal scuffles. Since 1991, when he was just wetting his feet in the music business, he’s been accused of overbooking a celebrity basketball game at which nine people were trampled to death, of menacing a photographer, and of beating a music executive with Read More
